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Baltimore usually gets more than a nine-month break, or about 280 days, between the last snowfall of one winter and the first flakes of the next. But this year, the region couldn't even make it eight months — its shortest break from snow since 1979. As winter lingered into last spring, the last...

On an unexpectedly snowy day Thursday — Baltimore’s snowiest in November since at least 1989 — the region unofficially set a record for its wettest year in the books. As of 5 p.m., an inch of precipitation had fallen at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, enough to surpass...

More than an inch of rain fell across the region Monday, and nearly another inch has come down on Election Day, pushing 2018 to the No. 3 spot among Baltimore’s wettest years on record. There has now been more than 60 inches of precipitation this year at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood...

National Weather Service officials said Saturday that a severe windstorm that ripped through the Baltimore area late Friday was, in fact, a tornado. The storm is blamed for the partial collapse of an Amazon warehouse that killed two contract workers. So why was the weather so bad? Accuweather meteorologist...

The National Weather Service confirmed an EF-1 tornado touched down in Mount Airy Friday night, one of two that hit the state. Kevin Witt, a meteorologist with the Sterling, Virginia, NWS office, said a team was going to survey the area Saturday to see if Friday night’s storm was a tornado, or...

After almost 2 inches of rain fell on the region over the weekend, 2018 moved up in the record books to rank as Baltimore's fifth-wettest year on record. There has been more than 57 inches of rain since Jan. 1 at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. A storm that moved up...

No need to bundle up under Halloween costumes this year — temperatures in the 60s are likely during trick-or-treating around Baltimore. Dry weather is also in the forecast. Afternoon highs are forecast in the upper 60s, if not above 70 degrees. Temperatures are likely to remain in the lower 60s...

Maryland is in for a “chilly soaking rain” Friday and Saturday as a storm expected to form from the remnants of Hurricane Willa moves up the East Coast, the National Weather Service said. A widespread 1 to 1.5 inches of rain could fall across the Baltimore region, meteorologists predict. And some...

On Monday, Hurricane Willa was approaching the Mexican coast as a Category 5 storm, but by Friday, its remnants could bring winds, rain and erosion to Maryland beaches and the season's first snow in the Appalachians. The storm is forecast to feed a low pressure system expected to sweep up the East...